Emma Baker

Nov 20, 2023 | nature.com | Emma Baker |Claire Morey |Rebecca Bentley |Wendy Stone |Steven Rowley |Christian Nygaard

AbstractFor the past two decades, researchers and policy makers have known very little about conditions within Australia’s housing stock due to a lack of systematic and reliable data. In 2022, a collaboration of Australian universities and researchers commissioned a large survey of 22,550 private rental, social rental and homeowner households to build a data infrastructure on the household and demographic characteristics, housing quality and conditions in the Australian housing stock.

Aug 16, 2023 | econotimes.com | Andrew Beer |Emma Baker

Roughly one in three Australians rent their homes. It’s Australia’s fastest-growing tenure, but renting is increasingly unaffordable. From 2020 to 2022, our research found a large increase in the proportion of renters who said their housing was unaffordable. Change in Australian renters’ assessments of affordability from 2020 to 2022.

Aug 15, 2023 | theconversation.com | Andrew Beer |Emma Baker

Roughly one in three Australians rent their homes. It’s Australia’s fastest-growing tenure, but renting is increasingly unaffordable. From 2020 to 2022, our research found a large increase in the proportion of renters who said their housing was unaffordable. Australians are concerned about the pace of rent rises. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says increasing housing supply and affordability is the “key priority” for tomorrow’s national cabinet meeting.

Aug 15, 2023 | au.news.yahoo.com | Andrew Beer |UniSa Business |Emma Baker

Roughly one in three Australians rent their homes. It’s Australia’s fastest-growing tenure, but renting is increasingly unaffordable. From 2020 to 2022, our research found a large increase in the proportion of renters who said their housing was unaffordable. Change in Australian renters’ assessments of affordability from 2020 to 2022.

May 3, 2023 | tandfonline.com | Emma Baker |Rebecca Bentley

The connection between housing—its quality, or security or affordability—and the health and wellbeing of people is well evidenced, but often underrepresented in the day-to-day governance of our cities and regions. The reasons for this underestimation are, to some extent, understandable, because the ways in which housing affects health are multiple, highly individualised, and interrelated.